5th Anniversary of Hurricane Ivan
This weekend marks five years since Hurricane Ivan devastated Grand Cayman. Already when I arrived a little more than a year later there had been a remarkable recovery.
Physically few obvious scars now remain – though the numbers of trees will take a long time to grow back – and the National Recovery Fund is just finishing off repairs to the last of the houses damaged by Ivan. But scratch the surface and the psychological effects, the remains of the trauma, are still there.
The speed of recovery demonstrates the resilience and penchant for hard work that you find in Cayman. Cayman Brac, the second island, is also recovering incredibly quickly from Hurricane Paloma less than a year ago.
The lessons of these disasters have largely been learnt (though when I arrived 4 years ago that was not yet the case with government hurricane plans). We still have to fight complacency, which soon appears once a season has gone by without a bad event. In the messages that I and others are issuing today we are calling on people not to neglect their hurricane preparations just in case…
Posted at 03:14 12 September 2009 by Stuart Jack | Comments[0]
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